“Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”

“I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.”

“A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the ”

“The advantage of travel is that after a while you begin to realize that wherever you go, most people aren't really all that much different.”

“For a time, then, we stay. For a time. Till the changes.”

“Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is”

“You should never wish for wishful thinking.”

“What you desire is what you want, what you have is what Allah wants.”

“Most people say if you tell a wish it won't come true. But I don't think wishes work like that. I don't believe there's some bad-tempered wish-fairy with a clipboard, checking off whether or not yo...”